BBC News with David Austin

President Obama has said he's taking China to the World Trade Organisation over its export quotas on rare earth minerals so the US gets a fair deal in the global economy. The European Union and Japan have also filed complaints over the quotas. Here's Jonny Dymond.

China has a near stranglehold on the production and export of rare earths - minerals that are vital to the manufacture of high technology goods from mobile phones to wind turbines. For the past couple of years, those exports have been restricted and have become more expensive as China has tightened export quotas - something it says it does for environmental reasons. Now in what is the first joint filing of its kind, the US, the EU and Japan have complained to the World Trade Organisation - the first step before bringing formal litigation.

The Supreme Court in Argentina has ruled that women who have an abortion after being raped will no longer be prosecuted. Under Argentine law, abortion is permitted only in cases where the mother's life or health are at risk, or if the woman is deemed, as the law puts it, "of feeble mind". Vanessa Buschschluter reports.

The ruling is based on a case brought in 2010 by a 15-year-old girl. The girl, who'd become pregnant after years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, has sought permission from a court to have an abortion. The operation was carried out, but only after weeks and weeks of legal wrangling. The Supreme Court's decision, which was unanimous and can't be appealed against, means women who end the pregnancy stemming from a rape cannot be prosecuted, nor can the doctors who carried out the abortion.